From: Helvécio Mafra (helvecio.mafra_at_newted.org)
Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 - 15:37:53 PST
On Saturday, Mar 15, 2003, at 19:28 Brazil/East, Dylan Stewart wrote:
> Has everyone read about the new WinFS that Microsoft is going to be
> deploying in Longhorn?
>
> http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#longhorn
>
> "The most important feature of Longhorn is replacement of the familiar
> DOS/Windows filesystem with an object database (W0). You will no=20
> longer copy
> files to a floppy or CD-ROM or attach them to an email, because there=20=
> will
> be no files. Database records will be copied from one database to=20
> another,
> probably through a .NET server. Large organizations will have their=20
> own .NET
> servers, but everyone else will use one of Microsoft's, a service for=20=
> which
> you will pay a fee."
>
> It sounds a lot like the Newton file system. MS is now pushing=20
> something
> that Apple developed almost a decade ago. It is being hailed as a
> revolutionary idea, but the Newton's file system has been forgotten. =
I
> wonder what will happen if they actually release this. Apple would=20
> probably
> have quite a case against them.
Although it does sound like the Newton file system, it's the kind of=20
thing that makes me want less and less to use Microsoft OS's.
By reading the article, it appears to me that I won't have the right to=20=
do whatever pleases me with my own data, since it will be stored in=20
some Microsoft's server (DRM), and, if for any reason I don't pay the=20
proper fees, I won't have access to my own data. Scaring, to say the=20
least.
Cheers,
Helv=E9cio
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